Along with feeling more comfortable, the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE), an arm of the UK’s department of health, has said that home births are safer. The group says that women who give birth at home are 5 times less likely to need a cesarean section, 4 times less likely to have forceps used, and half as likely to need a blood transfusion than women who give birth in hospitals.
New UK guidelines say homebirths are safer
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